Oradour-sur-Glane

We have a few days to get back to Caen and we’re in no rush to head too far North yet as the weather is still lovely here. So we’ve headed off course a bit to Oradour-sur-Glane, a place I’d heard of but never thought I’d visit.

The 642 inhabitants were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. After the war, General Charles de Gaulle decided the village should never be rebuilt, but would remain a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation.

This is the church where the women and children were so brutally murdered.